How To Make Realistic Fire! real fire in photoshop

	How To Make Realistic Fire! - real fire in photoshop
	Discussion by theking648 with 34 Replies. Last Update: November 14, 2011, 1:57 am (View Latest)	Page 1 of 3 pages.

theking648

Hello and welcome to my tutorial, I’m going to teach you how to make realistic fire!!!!

this is how I figured it out, I was makeing smoke in photoshop one day, but i wanted color to be added to it, so I added some color balance to it and ""click"" it hit me.... it looked alot like fire.

--I would rate this tutorial easy and on a scale from 1 to 10 of difficulty, I would say a 3

--this is how I did it.

1. first I started with a blank page.. duh
it doesn't mater what the size is but I used 400 X 400 pixels

2. Ok, we got our blank document now were going to select the fill tool and fill the layer black.
3. Now grab the elliptical marquee tool and make and oval like the image below.

4. Now fill the oval with white. After it is filled click select --> deselect or ctrl + D

5. Here is where it gets rockey if you haven't got the above steps down well your in trouble, anyways select the smuge tool then make shore that the brush size is at 50px and hardness is at 50%. Click and hold your cursor in the black part of the image and with a medium speed sweep across the white oval. Repeat as many times as needed but leave a gap big enought for your brush. you should end up with a image like this

6. Ok I hope your still with me. Now with the smuge tool go over the gaps that we skiped in the same direction, and hopefuly you get a result alot like this

7. step 7 is not any differant than step 5 and step 6. Take the smuge tool and repeat the same thing you did in step 5 and hopefuly you get this

8. from what you have now you can contune the pathern if it don't look right or you can go ahead and color it.
9. now click Layer--> color balance and a window should open up..... now put the below settings in
I WANT YOU TO PLAY AROUND WITH THIS because the settings I have wont be the same setting that you need

after you played around with the setting you should have this

you can also make it any color you want if your looking for a differant look;

this is what I made from the above image... All I did was cange the brush size a little bit to make the fire thinner.

and thats it I hope you liked this tutorial if you have any questions you can pm me or e-mail me from the link at my web site

Happy painten

Wed Nov 29, 2006 Reply New Discussion

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[IMG]http://i27.Tinypic.Com/2i7ol6o.Jpg[/IMG]

This is what I've made. Add some grey in the middle of the smudged white blob to have this nice little darker effect in the middle. Just place a black dot and smudge evenly all through. This is the tip frm me.

And hey I had tried more than 2 hrs to make fire effect LOL!! This one is really cool.

-reply by Sathish

Sun Mar 30, 2008 Reply New Discussion

04dsmith86

Very nice! I was having trouble at first because I made the oval in a new layer. It needs to be on the same layer as the black background for the color adjustments to work. I ended up recording the action so I can flameify (new word) anything. I played around with it some more and came up with a blue flame effect. I added some smoke and text and voila, nice little text-effect. Here it is:

Mon Jan 15, 2007 Reply New Discussion

Jimmy89

thats a very nice effect that you've made made. well done. it took a bit of work but i did manage to make my own, though i cant post them now cause im not on my computer! thanks for the tutorial though

-jimmy

Mon Jan 29, 2007 Reply New Discussion

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AWesome!!!!!!
How To Make Realistic Fire!

Thats so awesome! I can't believe it ! I can

Finally make a fire on photoshop!

-Hala

Fri Feb 1, 2008 Reply New Discussion

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Try this
How To Make Realistic Fire!

After for a better affect Filter>Distort>ZigZag

Tue Mar 11, 2008 Reply New Discussion

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Problems with color balance.
How To Make Realistic Fire!

I'm dong this in PS2 if that matters. I'm having problems with my color balance. With adjusting levels it shows no colors at all and with levels it looks really bad. Any help?

-question by Mark

Tue Apr 15, 2008 Reply New Discussion

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Great!!
How To Make Realistic Fire!

Well done, finally I got what I was looking for past 1 month, thanks once more.

-reply by Ahsan

Sat Apr 26, 2008 Reply New Discussion

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Wow, I'm gonna sound like a douchebag by giving the first negative comment...

It's not very realistic, if you have photoshop7 or higher:

1. Create a small white sphere with the Marquee tool on a black background
2. Use the wind filter (filter>stylize>wind) 3 or 4 times
3. Use the gaussian blur tool (filter>blur>Gaussian)
4. Rotate 90 degrees with the Free Transform tool (ctrl+t)until flames are facing upward.
5. Use the warp tool in the liquify menu (ctrl+shift+X mess with it a bit)
6. After you've got it to the way you want, click okay.
7. Finally, create a new layer and set it to overlay, color the flame however you wish!

Ta-the, this is also kinda based on your photoshop talents, but I have faith in you all :D

-reply by Static Hell Scream

Thu May 8, 2008 Reply New Discussion

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NiceTutorial
How To Make Realistic Fire!

That was a sick tutorial, I worked it out pretty quickly. You might want to use spell check next time though. = )

Thizzard

-reply by ThizzardOfOz

Thu May 8, 2008 Reply New Discussion

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Applying Smudge & Flame Colouring
How To Make Realistic Fire!

Hi

Thanks for the guide, its awesome

Also, when applying the smudge how do I get it to just smudge the white outline Ive drawn and no the pic & how do I get it to colour the flames only and not the rest of the pic - SEE BELOW

[IMG]http://img241.Imageshack.Us/img241/8681/abacz0.Jpg[/IMG]

Thanks
Marc

-reply by Marc Randles

Wed Jun 25, 2008 Reply New Discussion

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Words and fire
How To Make Realistic Fire!

Replying to 04dsmith86

How did you get the fire behind your text like that. Did you just create the fire in one layer and add your text in another layer and lay them on top of eachother?

-reply by dave

Wed Jun 25, 2008 Reply New Discussion

NelsonTR4N

How do people know how to do these things? Do people experiment with these or something?

Wed Oct 8, 2008 Reply New Discussion

levimage

You can also try other shapes, to smudge/blur. You can get different flame like effects. Then duplicate the layer and apply some motion blurs with gradient masks, transparent Gaussian blurs. When you think you have something hot do some large Gaussian Blurs for glow with different colors. Also if you like a particular flame or don't like repeatable work you can also mirror a copy and apply some transforms to it. Yup kool! Don't for get to add little flecks of amber rising from the flame. I might have to try this one on GIMP.

What I would like to simulate about fires. Is the random distortions from heat waves without looking too artificial.